Quilting frame



QUILTING RAME Filed Jul 50' 1936 Patented May a, 1938 w r 2,116,451

UNITED STATES PATENT GFFQQE 2.1163151 QUILTING FRAME Sidney S. Russell, St. Louis, Mo.

Application July 30, 1936, Serial No. 93,477

2 Claims. (01. 45-24) This invention relates to a quilting frame and irons 26 are adjustably secured, the same having it aims to provide a generally improved construchorizontal flanges 21 extending across the tops tion wherein the parts are quite durable and of the plates and vertical flanges 28 depending in eflicient, wherein adjustment and fastening of spaced relation to the inner surfaces of such the rolls and the parts mounting them is effected plates. Said inner surfaces also have strips 29 5 in a novel manner, especially so as to maintain fastened thereto; A pair of adjustable bolts 30 the quilt under tension and to accommodate the pass through each of the flanges 28 and the addition of cotton between the quilt and the linstrips 29.

ing, and a construction which may be readily In order to mount the quilting and lining rolls, disassembled so as to occupy small space when four bars are employed as at 3|. Such bars are 10 not in use. removable and adjustable, having their inner ends The more specific objects and advantages will located between the plates 28, flanges 21 and become apparent from a consideration of the destrips 29, their inward movement being limited scription following taken in connection with acby screws or pins 32 passed through the flanges companying drawings illustrating an operative 28 and into the plates I9. 15 embodiment. Two of the bars 3| adjacent one end have In said drawing:-- notches 33 cut in from the top thereof and the Figure 1 is a view of the structure in side elevaother bars adjacent the outer ends have a pair tion, parts being broken away to disclose details; of notches 34 cut inwardly from the tops thereof.

Figure 2 is a central vertical sectional view In said notches, the reduced cylindrical ends or 20 taken substantially on the plane of line 2-2 of trunnions 35 of rollers 36, 3! and 38 are jour- Figure 1; naled. This construction enables the bars 3| Figure 3 is a detail section taken on the line and the rollers 36, 31 and 38 to be readily re- 3--3 of Figure 2, and moved or disassembled for storage, packing or Figure 4 is a fragmentary plan view illustratother purposes. To prevent accidental removal ing the fastening of a quilt and a lining roll. of the rollers, the outer ends of each of the bars Referring specifically to the drawing wherein are provided with holder members for the rollers I like reference characters designate like or cordesignated 39. These elements 39 are pivoted as responding parts, a quilting frame may comprise at 4|] on vertical axes to the bars 3| and the eletwo uprights or standards In which are relatively ments are of angle pe in Cross ction 50 as 30 narrow and either permanently or removably to engage the upper and outer sides of the bars joined by a longitudinal strip H, secured thereto, and in addition, at the free ends of the elements by brackets or angles I2, fastened by screws or they are of U-shap 50 as to av e te s ons 4| bolts as at I3. At the lower ends, each upright which are resilient and which will frictionally grip may have a foot 14 removably secured thereto as the ends of the bars 3! to hold the elements 5 by means of a removable bolt 15 and a pin [5 against accidental displacement. carried by each foot and adapted to enter a socket Around the roller 36, the quilt 42 and the lining H in the upright. Casters I8 are preferably 43 are wrapped. Additionally, the quilt is provided on the feet. wrapped about the roller 38 while the lining is At the upper ends of the uprights l3 blocks or wrapped about the roller 31. All of the rollers 40 plates I9 are detachably fastened by means of 36, 31 and 38'are provided with a ratchet wheel removable bolts 20. Such blocks or plates are 4 thereon d 1 W S' are DiVoted at 45 On he connected together by a pair of spaced apart arms, to engage the ratchet wheels in order to bars 2| which bars and plates are connected toprevent unw o the mater al therefrom as 45 gether by means of brackets 22 screwed or bolted shown. 45 in place as at 23 and on two of which bolts, at The bars 3i may be readily adjusted through each end of the device, struts 24 are pivoted. the loosening and tightening of the bolts 30 as Said struts are preferably made of a single piece when the quilt runs irregular, in order to apply of wire or rod of resilient material and interthe desired tension at any corner or corners of mediate their ends are arched and extended upthe device. In addition, the novel means which 50 wardly as at 25 so as to embrace the strip or secures the rollers 31 and 38 in place enables them ,bar II from above and have a certain wedging to be quickly released for the proper operation action against the same to aid in rigidly conwhen padding with cotton according to the procnecting the parts together. ess of quilting, to avoid roughness and lumpiness Adjacent the upper edges of the plates 19, angle in the completed quilt. 55

It will be realized that the frame comprises parts which may be readily disassembled or detached in order to occupy minimum space when not in use.

I claim as my invention:

1. Apparatus of the class described having uprights, a strip connecting the uprights, a quilting frame having depending plates, means connecting the plates to the uprights, U-shape resilient strutshaving theiriree ends. pivotally connected to the-plates,said struts intermediate their ends and at the lowermost portion being arched wherebyrthey are resiliently engageable with the strip.

struts having their free ends pivotally connected 5 to the plates, said struts intermediate their ends and at the lowermost portion being arched whereby they are resiliently engageable with the strip, bars connecting said plates on opposite sides of the uprights, and said struts being directly piv- 10 oted to said bars.

SIDNEY S. RUSSELL. 

